Willow Garage’s PR2 robot now for sale
Posted by admin in Robots on 09. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
PR2 – short for Personal Robot 2 – is roughly the size of a person and consists of a mobile base sitting upon four steered and driven casters, torso, head, two arms, an array of sensors and sixteen cores for computation. The torso moves up and down relative to the base, to give PR2 a [...]
Tomb-Bot Will Be the First to Enter Final Secret Chambers of the Great Pyramid
Posted by admin in Robots, Science on 10. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
Upuaut-2 The Upuaut-2 bot was used in an earlier exploration of the Queen’s Chamber. Egyptologists are hoping some 21st-century tech will help them unlock secrets from 4,500 years ago. They’re using a robot to explore the Great Pyramid of Giza. The robot will traverse two unexplored shafts leading from the Queen’s Chamber in the pyramid. [...]
New Japanese Telepresence Robot Pushes the Boundaries of Creepy
Posted by admin in Robots on 03. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
Telenoid Robot Telenoid R1 with Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro, a professor at Osaka University. Maybe it’s just us, but some Japanese robots are a special brand of creepy. The moaning mouth was bad enough, but now there’s this tadpole-shaped telepresence robot, hereby christened Larvabot. The Telenoid R1 is meant to be a minimalist human, so details [...]
ROILA, a New Spoken Language Designed for Robots
Posted by admin in Robots on 15. Jul, 2010 | 2 Comments
Pito loki wikute tuji! That’s ROILA for "I like fruit." These Lego Mindstorms NXT robots are learning ROILA, Robot Interaction Language, as part of a team of robots donated by Lego. The next step is to allow the NXT robots to talk in ROILA via text-to-speech synthesis. Soon, when you want your helper robot to [...]
Moaning Rubber Robot Mouth Simulates Human Voices, Fuels Our Human Nightmares
Posted by admin in Robots on 20. Apr, 2010 | 0 Comments
Don’t be too thrown off by the creepy sounds this robot elicits, as it may actually help hearing-impaired people improve their speech articulation Over the weekend, video of a horrifying robot struggling to sound out vowels was passed around the web with little explanation other than, “This is creepy.” Which it certainly is, but, after [...]
